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“And it can take 12 to 18 months to get back to the sort of place you were at before you became critically ill.

“And that’s an area, life after critical illness, which is actually a workstream that the faculty is currently engaged in.

“It’s something that we’ll need to look at because if patients are staying in hospital when they don’t necessarily need it, but they need that increased support and that rehabilitation, then that’s going to hinder the speed with which we can get back to normal health care practice afterwards.”

The committee also heard from Professor Anthony Costello, of University College London’s Institute for Global Health, who warned that the UK is “going to face further waves” of the coronavirus.

He said: “If we’re going to suppress the chain of transmission of this virus in the next stage we all hope that the national lockdown and social distancing will bring about a large suppression of the epidemic so far – but we’re going to face further waves.

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“We’re also a trading nation and I mean Africa has actually been the fastest growing region of the world in the last decade,” he told the Health and Social Care Committee.

“If they collapse, that’s going to be both the burden on aid for everyone, it’s going to be migration, going to be flights, and the economy that we deal with, particularly after Brexit, we’re looking for new markets, will be very important.”

Referring to longer-term foreign policy, he said: “We’ve seen that President Trump has cut budgets to WHO, which I think diminishes the status of America.

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“China is actually delivering an awful lot of personal protective equipment and testing capacity to many countries in Africa, and I think the long-term impact of that could be people turn to the East rather than to the “est.

He added: “Remember that with the open borders that you need for trade, you’re going to have the risk of people bringing imported infections in if we don’t get control over the world.”